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ABSTRACT: Talk story about the gigantic Duratrans mural of Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden in the Amtrak concourse at Penn Station… When writer finally realized that Davey Johnson wasn't going to invite him down to St. Petersburg for a tryout at the Mets' spring-training camp this year, his heart grew heavy & he went over to Penn Station to look at the 102-foot-10-inch-by-10-foot-3-inch softly concave Duratrans mural of Dwight Gooden, the lanky, heroic starboardsider who will no doubt be given the opening day nod in writer's stead. Writer called the Nike company in Beaverton, Oregon, because Dwight is endorsing Nike shoes & Cindy Hale, an advertising manager, told him that the photo was a combination of photography & art work. Then writer called the photographer, Bill Sumner, who told him that the picture was not just 1 shot, but 5, one of Dwight, one of the batter & 3 others, taken April 19,1986, at Shea Stadium. Vincent Notaro, a senior vice-president at the Winston Network, the Manhattan company that arranged for the space where the picture is hung, told that writer that what the production people got was 27 separate Duratrans sections, which were combined with transparent tape to form the longest photo in the country. The photo is held in place with grommets. “It's just like a big trampoline there, with those spring clips suspending it–a vertical trampoline.” The game that was photographed was attended by 38,333 people, lasted 2 hours & 47 minutes–long enough for a continuously flying Gooden fastball at 95 mph, to travel 264 1/10 miles. Writer's own heater in the same time would have travelled 152 9/10ths miles. You could probably get a picture of it with your family. Polaroid.